pannage
English
Etymology
From Old French pasnage, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.
Noun
pannage (countable and uncountable, plural pannages)
- Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
- A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
- 1861, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold by charter in fee, have house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow again as much in yearly value, in wood, pannage, or other issues of a wood.
